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First printing Assassination Broadside offered - J. Beckert - 04-04-2024 07:17 PM
https://historical.ha.com/itm/political/posters-and-broadsides-pre-1896-/abraham-lincoln-john-wilkes-booth-assassination-broadside/a/6286-43058.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
RE: First printing Assassination Broadside offered - Dennis Urban - 04-05-2024 02:10 PM
In an interesting and apparent oversight by Stanton or the printer, Booth's name does not appear until the physical descriptions on the bottom of the page and than only by his surname. Even if I had the $$ I'm not sure I would pay a huge sum for a poster in which Booth's full name is not boldly and prominently mentioned.
RE: First printing Assassination Broadside offered - J. Beckert - 04-05-2024 04:02 PM
(04-05-2024 02:10 PM)Dennis Urban Wrote: In an interesting and apparent oversight by Stanton or the printer, Booth's name does not appear until the physical descriptions on the bottom of the page and than only by his surname. Even if I had the $$ I'm not sure I would pay a huge sum for a poster in which Booth's full name is not boldly and prominently mentioned.
It's in the description of Surratt and Herold calling them "Booth's accomplices". Maybe they omitted it at the top because they believed it was common knowledge 6 days later? Either way, I agree on this piece. I'd much rather have one of the broadsides with the pictures. Of which few survive with all the pictures intact.